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Hackers stole 2 billion rubles from Russian banks whose correspondent accounts were at the Bank of Russia, CNN reports . In the Central Bank, the American television channel officially confirmed this information.

Hackers tried to steal 5 billion rubles, but their attack was partially repelled. “We were lucky to return part of the money,” the television channel quoted the deputy head of the security department and protection of the Central Bank Artyom Sychev. He noted that hackers also attacked private banks and stole funds from the accounts of their customers.

When the attack occurred, it is not specified. As CNN notes, it is similar to the attacks of hackers that have occurred recently in many countries of the world. In particular, in 2015, banks were hacked in Ecuador and the Philippines. In the Vietnamese bank, a similar attack was repelled. In February of this year, hackers stole 101 million dollars from the Central Bank of Bangladesh. They tried to withdraw more than 900 million, but the security service was able to stop the attack.

According to representatives of Symantec, which specializes in cybersecurity and information protection, there is a group of hackers, who calls itself Lazarus, is the attacks on the international banking system. It is claimed that it can be associated with North Korea.

Meanwhile, the Central Bank denies an attack on the bank itself. "Information about the theft of 2 billion from the Country Counters of the Bank of Russia as a result of a hacker attack is not true. In a review of financial stability, which was presented the night before, it was about the losses that were incurred by commercial banks and their customers, as a result of hacker attacks for the whole of 2016," the Central Bank’s press service told .

In early November, it became known that several large Russian banks, including Sberbank, Alfa-Bank, Bank of Moscow, Rosbank, as well as the Moscow Exchange, were subjected to a series of massive DDOS attacks . According to Sberbank, the attacks were organized from botnets, including tens of thousands of cars, territorially distributed into several dozens of countries. In the Central Bank, they added that "in the attack, the bot-network is involved in the so-called devices of the" Internet of things ".

The average duration of each attack was about an hour, the longest lasted almost 12 hours. Some banks have been attacked repeatedly - a series of two to four attacks with a small interval. The capacity of attacks reached 660 thousand requests per second.

On Friday, the FSB said that foreign intelligence services are preparing a series of large -scale cyber attacks for Russian banks. Server capacities and command centers for cyber attacks are located on the territory of the Netherlands and belong to the Ukrainian hosting company BlazingFast, the FSB noted. The start time of the attacks is December 5, the goal is “destabilizing the financial system of Russia”.

"The cybercage is planned to be accompanied by a massive newsletter of SMS messages and publications on social networks (blogs) of a provocative nature in relation to the crisis of the credit and financial system of Russia, bankruptcy and recall of licenses at a number of leading banks of federal and regional significance. The action was aimed at several dozen cities of the Russian Federation," the report said. The special services also assured that the FSB "takes the necessary measures to neutralize threats to the economic and information security of the Russian Federation and documenting the impending action."